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How a blind developer codes in Visual Studio
Microsoft engineer Saqib Shaikh shows how he writes and debugs code with a screen reader at full speed.
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Software that reads a screen aloud can handle email, documents, and code - when those things are built to be read. In practice, meeting slides often go undescribed, internal tools assume everyone uses a mouse, and a large share of the PDFs that land in an inbox can't be read by the software blind employees depend on.
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Microsoft engineer Saqib Shaikh shows how he writes and debugs code with a screen reader at full speed.
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